Pauline M. Berry

Pauline M. Berry, EJ223   
SRI International         
333 Ravenswood Ave.       
Menlo Park, CA 94025

Research Areas

• Scheduling
• Workflow Management (Process Control)
• Constraint-Based Search
• Distributed and Multi-Agent Problem Solving
• Knowledge-Based Resource Management
• Capacity Planning
• Probabilistic Modelling
• Technologies for Collaborative Working and the Virtual Organisation.

Projects

• ENDSTATE: Effects-based planning in Interconnected Physical Instrastructures
• Smart Workflow for ISR Management (SWIM) (AIM Program)
• CPEF: Continuous Planning and Execution
• Explaining and Recovering from Computer Break-ins
• Multiagent Planning Architecture

Representative Research (to date)

• Principle Investigator on a project (SWIM) to build an extremely dynamic and adaptive workflow management system for information collection from a wide variety of sources to a diverse set of users.
• Development of constraint-based techniques for bandwidth allocation in satellite communications
• Conceived and led the DISA project to improve hospital resource management in Swiss hospitals.
• Techniques for the integration of planning and reactive scheduling components within a temporally distributed architecture.
• Contributed to the implementation of DAS, a Distributed Asynchronous Scheduler.
• Pioneered the use of predictive models and probabilistic reasoning to address the problem of conflicting objectives in AI-based scheduling.
• Design and Implementation of an intellgent scheduling tool for manufacturing.

Other Professional Experience

• Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Applied Intelligence
• Previous employers include the University of Strathclyde, the Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) in Edinburgh, the University of Geneva, the National Engineering Laboratory (NEL) and Barr and Stroud Plc.
• Has taught undergraduates, postgraduates and industrialists in the areas of information management, knowledge management, the Internet and information networks.

Representative Publications

• Formatted publications

Bits and Pieces

• Here are some online notes I made for a course on Planning and Managing an Internet service in 1996. (Its amazing how outdated it seems already!)

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